NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
800 AM EDT SAT SEP 5 2015
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical
Storm Fred, located more than a thousand miles southwest of the
Azores.
1. Satellite images and ship observations this morning indicate that a
tropical depression could be forming about 200 miles south of the
Cape Verde Islands. If this trend continues, advisories would be
initiated later today. Environmental conditions appear to be
favorable for additional development, at least for the next two or
three days, while the system moves westward at 15 to 20 mph across
the tropical Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...80 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent
